Which of the following attitudes is LEAST characteristic of art in the first half of the twentieth century?
a. an interest in the purely formal aspects of artistic expression
b. the influence of new theories of time and space
c. the disjunctive juxtaposition of motifs
d. confidence in an orderly and predictable universe
Answer: d
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